Justin Fenwick

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It’s job hunting season, three tips

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ May 7, 2008 ⋅

Post from Brazen Careerist – Penelope Trunk with some personal commentary, quotes from What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get a Job Around Here? by Cynthia Shapiro 1. There’s one trick to all trick questions. “All trick questions, even the really scary psychological questions, are crafted so that you will give a negative answer.” [...]

It is weird to empathize with George Bush

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ May 1, 2008 ⋅

Like how Iraq was mission accomplished 5 years today, I too felt accomplished. I was just about to finish high school and I hadn’t even decided on a college. I was though flying high, mission accomplished. I had recently regained trust by my parents and summer “adult” freedom was ripening on my tongue. I forgive [...]

A Chinese cookie fortune frees me from life’s maze

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ March 4, 2008 ⋅

“You emerge victoriously from the maze you’ve been traveling in.” Life sure does feel like a maze, does it not? Wandering looking for the right direction, knowing at any moment we might walk right into a wall. The worst part is that we are often doomed to back-track. At best, we find ourselves busting through [...]

The child-man, gay-infant, and adult-girl

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ February 26, 2008 ⋅

Are adults made? A recent article by Kay Hymowitz from City Journal suggests something about young men today in our society: Today’s single young men hang out in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood. Child-Man in the Promised Land by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Winter 2008 The suggestion is that for various social [...]

Live selfishly, by being selfless

By Justin Fenwick ⋅ February 24, 2008 ⋅

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier -Albert Schweitzer And now time to define: self·ish /ˈsɛlfɪʃ/ –adjective 1. devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one’s own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others. 2. characterized by or manifesting concern or care [...]